Damascus High School

Coaches, teachers and administrators of Damascus High School failed to stop the school football team’s violent hazing ritual, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of four rape victims. The school football team’s tradition, called “brooming,” involved the forcible sodomizing of younger players with a broom, according to the lawsuit. The story made national headlines in 2018 when four...

Coaches, teachers and administrators of Damascus High School failed to stop the school football team’s violent hazing ritual, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of four rape victims. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

A 15-year-old boy accused of raping fellow members of his Maryland high school football team in the school’s locker room will be tried as a juvenile, moving the case out of adult court, a judge ruled Friday.

A year after a football hazing scandal at Damascus High School, an external review has found there is not widespread hazing in Montgomery County Public Schools. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports the investigation suggests the school system increase training for coaches and sponsors on preventing and responding to hazing, bullying and sexual assault.

An independent investigation into the alleged rapes of junior varsity football players by their teammates at a Maryland high school says the students were completely unsupervised at the time of the assaults, and the timeframe in which the school reported the incident to police was acceptable.

Montgomery County’s superintendent says JV coaches were supposed to be supervising students during the time alleged assaults happened in the locker room at Damascus High School. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

An independent investigation found JV football players at Damascus High School were unsupervised during alleged sexual assaults in the locker room. News4’s Jackie Bensen explains other findings from the investigation.

The principal of a Maryland high school has resigned following the alleged rapes of junior varsity football players by their teammates.

Montgomery County Public Schools will hire an outside firm to investigate its procedures and reporting practices following the filing of rape charges that involve high school football players.

Officials at a Maryland high school waited hours to tell police that a football player had been credibly accused of raping a teammate with a broomstick, despite an agreement with police requiring the immediate reporting of sexual assaults.

A 15-year-old boy accused of raping fellow members of his Maryland high school football team in the school’s locker room will be tried as a juvenile, moving the case out of adult court, a judge ruled Thursday.

A 15-year-old boy accused of raping fellow members of his Maryland high school football team in the school’s locker room will be tried as a juvenile, moving the case out of adult court, a judge ruled Friday.

Four 15-year-old boys have been charged as adults after the alleged rape of fellow junior varsity football players inside a Damascus High School locker room.

Four 15-year-old boys charged as adults after the alleged rape of fellow junior varsity football players inside a Damascus High School locker room have been released on $20,000 bond.

A 15-year-old boy accused of instigating the rape of fellow members of his Maryland high school football team in the school’s locker room will be tried as a juvenile, moving the case out of adult court, a judge ruled Thursday.

A 15-year-old boy accused of instigating the rape of fellow members of his Maryland high school football team in the school’s locker room will be tried as a juvenile, moving the case out of adult court, a judge ruled Thursday. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.

A 15-year-old boy accused of rape at his Maryland school was a victim the previous year, a psychologist’s report says. News4’s Chris Gordon has the latest on Damascus High School. 

A police report obtained by the Washington Post details the alleged sexual assaults a group of boys endured inside a Damascus High School locker room. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports.